Oh I agree. My goal in life is to "be understood" and I suspect
   that's a common life-goal with each interaction. Who wants to be
   misunderstood? [well some people prefer it... it gives them
   freedom]

   Emotional states - that's a very good point. My critique of the
   concept of pure reason is precisely that: It's emotional states
   that push even the "purest of Reason" into the "TRUE" OR "FALSE"
   category - or rather, any category.

   It's the emotion of certainty. "This fits an existing template
   and goes _here_"

   But it's a feeling. To me, pure reason is an efficient
   manipulation of a limited set of emotional states within one's
   own mind (or simulating that manipulation of a limited set of
   emotional states on paper... or building machines (like
   computers) which mimic the same limited set of human emotional
   states in a machine).